Training courses and online booking

We organise training on various subjects with regards to care for Gwynedd Council workers and agencies that have service level agreements / contracts with the Council.

When booking a place - please ensure that you choose the appropriate language.

List of training courses available:

Active Support (Awareness)

Dates:

25/09/2020 Enlli Training Room, Caernarfon

27/01/2021 Enlli Training Room, Caernarfon

Time: 9:30 - 16:30

Where: See dates

Language: Bilingual

Trainer: Andrew Guy

Target audience: Staff supporting people with learning disabilities

Aims and objectives:

Active support changes the style of support working with a person rather than doing for. It promotes independence and supports people to take an active part in their own lives. In order to provide effective support, staff training is needed on how to present the right type of support. Knowledge and understanding of the theory of active support and understanding the importance of active support.

AIM - under 12's Assessment & Intervention Training

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Language: English

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Target audience: Social workers and relevant workers from children's agencies and preventative services.

Aims and objectives:

To facilitate the participants in developing their understanding and confidence in assessments and interventions with children under 12 and their families were the child is displaying sexually problematic or harmful behaviours.

To consider definitions of healthy, problematic and harmful sexual behaviours in children.

To provide information from research and practice on why younger children may act in a sexual way.

To introduce the AIM assessment model for younger children with frameworks for professional decision making, and give participants an opportunity to use them.

To provide information on programmes of interventions with children, their families and their networks.

To facilitate participants in trying out techniques for working with children and their families.

To facilitate participants in linking the course information to their own practice.

The Social Services and Wellbeing Act (Wales) 2014 expects, allows and encourages us to

Do thing differently and to do different things.

This course will support the conversational skills of staff and build on their insight into important view wishes and feelings of people they support. The course will share some tools with staff to help them to have sensitive skilled conversations focused on what really matters to people.

To be Inspiring Leader there are skills and attributes you want to develop so you can fulfil your ambition to better understand those who work with you.

Making a difference in the world begins with making a difference for those nearby, this training will enable you to better understand your own thought processes, your habitual ways behaving, the ways in which you sometimes sabotage your plans and ambitions as well as why you would do that! This training will help you recognise unhelpful behaviours and replace them with more supportive ones you can practise.

Dementia Awareness

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Target audience: Care and support staff, housing staff and social workers

Aims and objectives:

The “All About Dementia” awareness course covers the foundation knowledge for anyone involved in dementia care. Focusing on the practical issues of caring for a person with dementia, we look at the ‘retained’ versus the ‘lost’ abilities. Our foundation course is built around best practice with communication being key. Delegates will gain insight into the techniques to use for optimal care compliance. We look at Person Centred Care, and the unique differences between the stages of the dementia journey.

Dementia Friends

Target audience: An initial introduction for anyone interested in learning more about people who live with Dementia

Aims and objectives: Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme is the biggest ever initiative to change people’s perceptions of dementia. It aims to transform the way the nation thinks, acts and talks about the condition. During the Dementia Friends information session you will learn more about the disease and get a better idea of what it’s like for the person living with dementia and how you can help and support that person.

Document Awareness Workshop

Responding to the shift in terrorist methodology away from larger more organised attacks to lone attackers and the increase in the insider threat, NaCTSO have developed the ACT Document Awareness Workshop to increase identity document knowledge

Using the subheading of "Do you know who you are employing?" and supported by the National Document Fraud Unit, the NaCTSO Awareness team and specially trained officers from across the Counter Terrorism network now offer Document Awareness workshops, with the aim of increasing their knowledge of identity documents and the potential for their abuse.

The workshop has been designed to enhance the ability of the delegates to spot a fake.

The additional knowledge gained will better protect services against potential infiltration through employment.

Target Audience: This qualification is aimed at Cooks, Assistant cooks.

A book will be distributed prior to training and the attendees are expected to read the book before the actual two-day face to face training.

Aims and objectives:

These include ensuring compliance with food safety legislation, the application and monitoring of good hygiene practice, how to implement food safety management procedures and the application and monitoring of good practice regarding contamination, microbiology and temperature control.

HABC Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (Partnership only)

Dates:

26/11/20

02/03/21

Time: 09:30 - 16:30

Where: Penrhyndeudraeth

Language: English with option to do group work and discussions in Welsh

Trainer: Iolo Povey

Target audience: Partnership only

Aims and objectives:

The aim of this course is to ensure that all staff members, especially new ones, will develop a basic understanding of health and safety at work and earn a level 2 qualification as evidence of this. The course will then provide opportunities for learners to develop key skills that will ensure their safety, their colleague’s safety and users within the workplace.

A one-day training session on mental health encompassing: what is stress and how it can affect physical and mental health; mental health; Common signs and symptoms of depression, anxiety disorders and psychotic disorders; How to manage stress better and how to care for mental health.

This is a full day course that enables managers and supervisors to play their part in building a culture that recognises and supports the mental wellbeing of their team. In doing so, it can assist in creating a more positive, resilient workforce, increasing productivity and reducing sickness absence.

It gives staff the practical understanding, specific tools and confidence to go back to their workplace and create a working environment that better supports mental wellbeing.

Mental health first aid (MHFA) is the initial help given to someone experiencing a mental health problem before professional help is obtained. Participants learn an approach to help them in a mental health crisis situation to remain calm and confident. They will also learn how to respond in the most appropriate way. These actions will make a difference and determine how quickly a person gets help or recovers. The aims of MHFA are:

to preserve life where a person may be a danger to themselves or others

to provide help to prevent the mental health problem developing into a more serious state

to promote the recovery of good mental health

to provide comfort to a person experiencing a mental health problem.

MHFA does not teach people to be therapists. However, it does teach people:

Positive Behaviour Support (P.B.S)

Target audience: Managers and staff who support people with learning disabilities.

Aims and objectives:

Understand why, when and how behavior occurs and what purpose they serve to the person.

Understand how a service can develop a positive behavior approach within their workplace and ensure that people who receive the service have a good quality of life, regardless of their possible behavior

Presentation on the main findings of the report by the Older People's Commissioner

Date: No date at present

Time: 10:00 - 11:30

Location: Plas Menai, Caernarfon

Language: English

For who: It will be of interest and relevant to managers, providers, staff in adult services and those who have attended advocacy training.

Aims and Objectives:

This is a presentation by Nicola Allen, Rights and Equalities Lead, Older People’s Commissioner for Wales’s office on the findings of the Commissioner’s report, Making Voices Heard. It will provide an overview of the report’s findings and update on any progress made since its publication.

This is not advocacy training but a presentation on the report and an opportunity to ask questions.

Safeguarding for Professionals

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Trainer: Social workers, nurses, managers and deputy managers from all Adult provider services, including partnership agencies, housing managers, and all other relevant professionals who may take part in safeguarding enquiries or investigations.

You must have attended POVA L2 or the All Wales Basic Safeguarding Awareness Training before attending this training.

Aims and objectives:

Increased understanding of part 7 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 relating to safeguarding adults

Increased confidence to carry out your professional roles and responsibilities to Safeguard Adults at Risk

Understanding of - Prevention and Safeguarding in communities- Social model of disability- the Mental Capacity Act and Safeguarding (capacity, consent and advocacy support)- Multi-agency safeguarding work – Safeguarding Boards and Safeguarding in practice

Separation and Loss

Date: No date at present

Time: 9:30 - 16:30

Location: Penrhyndeudraeth

Language: English

Aim and Objectives:

This course considers a range of issues relating to separation and loss issues experienced by children, young people and their families. The course considers how, loss and separation impacts on behaviour and how this may affect development of empathy, self-esteem and motivation in relation to offending behaviours.

The subject matter for this course can be highly emotive and it is recommended that anyone with current bereavement issues be supported during and following the training as the content may create triggers for individual staff members.

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

Explore different forms of separation and loss.

Identify physical and emotional reactions to separation and loss and Trauma.

Understand a range of techniques and responses to children and young people who display behaviours that may be associated with attachment difficulties or who have experienced separation and/or loss situations.

Gain awareness of external resources to support children and young people with issues relating to attachment, separation and loss.

We explain the stages of Alzheimer’s disease by using the analogy of Six Precious Jewels: easy to remember, dignified terminology and a practical tool for best practice care. What can you expect of each of the Jewels? What are their needs? How can you best help fulfil those needs?

Communication techniques and moving from one Jewel stage to the next

Recreational Activities for Each Jewel

Ways to encourage good hydration and adequate nutrition for each Jewel

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